Missing gstreamer packages

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 27 May 2015 15:29:11 +0100
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 May 2015 at 13:30, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 May 2015 13:19:47 +0100
> > Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 27 May 2015 at 10:11, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
> >> > I'm trying to install some stuff on Xubuntu 15.04, among them
> >> > some gstreamer plugins, and get this:
> >> >
> >> > Reading package lists... Done
> >> > Building dependency tree
> >> > Reading state information... Done
> >> > Package gstreamer1.0-lame is not available, but is referred to by
> >> > another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has
> >> > been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
> >> >
> >> > Package gstreamer1.0-plugins-really-bad is not available, but is
> >> > referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is
> >> > missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another
> >> > source
> >> >
> >> > E: Package 'gstreamer1.0-lame' has no installation candidate
> >> > E: Package 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-really-bad' has no installation
> >> > candidate
> >>
> >> Are you trying to install something from the Ubuntu repos?  If so
> >> what?
> >
> > I'm still trying to trace down exactly what package Recommended
> > these - they weren't hard Depends, but the thing that dragged them
> > in was Cinnamon. From the repos.
> >
> > But even if they are only Recommends, it is still a dependency bug
> > if they don't exist.
> 
> I notice that sound-juicer has the comments:
> The package includes support by default for Vorbis and FLAC formats.
> For other supports you need the following packages:
>  * gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly to encode to MP2,
>  * gstreamer1.0-lame (not available in the Debian archive) to encode
>    to MP3,
>  * gstreamer1.0-plugins-really-bad (not available in Debian) to encode
>    to AAC.
> 
> Could it be that?

That could be it. At least it is installed now, and I didn't have it
before, so it seems cinnamon-desktop-environment dragged it in. I'll
take a further look tomorrow, to see if it could be anything else, I
haven't got time to dig through the apt logs right now.

Petter

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